Levin expressed his hope that the School of Management would “continue to attract and educate leaders of business and society for generations to come.”[1] The forthcoming association of world-renowned architect Norman Foster was presented as a major coup.

Previous Foster designs had included Wembley Stadium and the Millennium Bridge in London, the Hearst Tower in New York, the Bundestag in Berlin, and the Millau Viaduct in southern France.

[2] Evans said: "I am delighted to make this gift that will bring together the Yale School of Management on a beautiful new campus, enlarge its student body, and propel it to the highest level in the 21st century."

In the Donaldson Dean’s Suite one will find “And Much, Much More!,” a witty artwork by Yale School of Art graduate Amy Pryor that portrays a collage in the shape of a bar graph representing US GDP from 1980 to 2010.

[5] In the Architects' Journal, Ellis Woodman wrote that "Evans Hall's language of full-height, circular, hollow-section columns ranged in front of an expanse of glazing hardly represents a departure for the practice".

[13] Both Woodman and de Monchaux compared the building to the Carré d'Art in Nîmes, France, also designed by Foster and Partners.

In 2018 Evans Hall received a Gold rating under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.

Since then, efforts have been underway to record and study bird mortality caused by Evans Hall, with a major report published in October 2020.

Given likely undercounts due to scavengers and delayed mortality, it is conservative to estimate that the building has killed over 700 birds since it opened in January 2014.